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3, 2. cHf. 2, 2. From the fr. lézard, lisarde, by lacertus, lacerta, celt. lagairt, gr. saura. Lo, sec. WT. 1, 2, Hh. 1, 1. S. Horne Tooke Div. of P. I, 478, In the bohem. dialect lele. Loach, fry or spawn of frogs. aHd. 2, 1. From the goth. laikan, icel. leikan, germ. laichen, legen (said of hens pounding eggs), kin to laken, to jump, used of carnal copulation, like bespringen, and the gr. lakō, lēkō, lēkaō, lai

Hh. 5, 3. T. 1. c., where Steevens suspects an Lizard's were believed to be venomous. bHf. equivoque between the equinoxial and the girdle of women. To give line. S. scope. to Line, to border, beset, encompass, guard. KJ. 2, 2; to fur, to double. O. 1, 1; to support, assist, back. M. 1, §. aHd. 2, 3. bHd. 1, 3. whence lined for lining, i. e. supporting. TA. 5, 1. to line the hands, Cy. 2, 3. to fill the hands with gold, to grease the fist, to bribe. Lineal, claimed by descent. bHd. 4, 4. He. 1, 2. KJ. 5, 7.

Ling, stockfish, orkney. AW. 3, 2. Link, torch of pitch. TS. 4, 1. afd. 3, 3. Linsey woolsey, stuff made of linen and wool, the same as ropetricks, wh. s.; gibberish, gibblegabble, twittletwattle, nonsense. AW. 4, 1.

kazō.

Loaf, mass, lump of bread. TɅn. 2, 1. Kin to leaven, wh. s.

Loam, clay. Rb. 1, 1. Kin to lime, wh. s. to Loath, lothe, to nauseate, abhor, detest. 0.3, 3. MD. 4, 1. Kin to the germ. Leid, letzen in verletzen, lezzi, perverse, Laster, lat. laedere.

Linstock, lintstock, a carved stick, with a Loathly, hateful, detestable. T. 4, 1. 0. 3, 4. cock at one end, to hold a gunner's match, Loathly, unwillingly. KL. 2, 1. and a sharp point at the other, to stick it up-Loathness, unwillingness. T. 2, 1. AC. 3, 9. right in the ground, a stock or handle to hold Lob, lubber, clowo. Lob, lubber, looby, loblint. He. 3. ch. From linteum, linum, and. stock.

Lip. To make a lip, to powt. Co. 2, 1.

to Lip, to kiss. AČ. 2, 5. O. 4, 1.

cock denote both inactivity of body and dulness of mind. MD. 2, 1. Kin to lap, germ. schlaff, schlapp, gr. laparos, lapē, laptō, laptazō. lapasso, anglos. slaw, lowsax. Lubbe.

stupid manner. He. 4, 2.

Lipsbury pinfold, L. pound. A proverbial say-to Lob, to drop, hang down in a sluggish and ing, and perhaps a coined name, meaning the teeth as being the pinfold within the lips. Liquor. The grand liquor, the great elixir, or aurum potabile of the alchymists. T. 5, 1. S. gilded.

List, boundary, limit. TN. 3, 1. aHd. 4, 1. H. 4, 5. 0.4, 1. aHf. 5, 5. M. 3, 1; desire, inclination. 0.2, 1. From licium, fr. lice, licière, Leis, Geleis, Leiste, and from Lust, by the gr. lō.

to List, to be willing, to please. KL. 5, 3. to Listen, to attend to. Rb. 2, 1. M. 2, 2. Sax. hly stan, lystan, kin to the germ. losen, lauschen, celt. llechu, francon. loschen, loscan, to be concealed, germ. List, gr. laō, leussō, fat. luscus, gr. loxos.

Lither, luther, soft, pliable, flexible, yielding. aHf. 4, 7. Kin to lewd, wh. s. of course to loose, lazy.

Litter, chair, sedan. KJ. 5, 3. KL. 3, 6; straw laid under beasts. KJ. 5, 2. From the fr. litière, kin to the gr. lektron, and the engl. lither, wh. s.

to Litter, to bring forth, to teem, used of beasts or in contempt of men. T. 1, 2. WT. 4, 2. Co. 3, 1.

Littlest, meanest. H. 3, 2. Livelihood, liveliness, active vigour, lively appearance. AW. 1, 1.

Liver, anciently supposed seat and cause of passions, as love, wrath etc. MW. 2, 1. MA. 4, 1. MV. 3, 2. WT. 1, 2. bHd. 1, 2. 5, 5. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 61.

Livery, clothes given to servants. TG. 2, 3. MM. 2, 4. 3, 1. AC. 5, 2. To sue one's livery a phrase relative to the feudal tenures, according to which the court of wards seized the lands of any tenant of the crown, upon his decease, till the heir sued out his livery and by that process came into possession. Rb. 2, 1. 2, 3. aHd. 4, 3. The word is from the germ. liefern, to deliver, kin to leihen, lehnen, lend, loan. Servant's clothes were delivered with salary and victuals..

Lobby, passageroom. antichambre, withdrawing room. H. 2, 2. TA. 1, 1. bHf. 4, 1. From the germ. Laube, middlelat. lobium; whence Laublein, Loblin, privy.

Lock, lovelock, a pendent lock of hair, often plaited and tied with ribband and hanging at the ear; a prevalent fashion in the age of Sh. It was worn on the left side, and hung down by the shoulder. MA. 3, 3. 5, 1. Gifford's Ben Jons. III, 463

Lockram, a sort of linen of a cheap kind, of various degrees of fineness, used for caps, shirts, shifts, and handkerchiefs, by the lower orders. Co. 2, 1. Kin to the gr. lakos, germ. Laken, lako, lakeros, lat. lacer.

Lodestar, leading or guiding star, polestar.
Locust tree, St. John's breadtree. O. 1, 3.
MD. 1, 1. Sax. laedan, lade, germ. leiten,
Geleit.

Lodge, hut, cabin, cottage. TAn. 2, 4. Kin to the sax. logian, lat. locus, gr. lesche, germ. legen, oldengl. loghe. Trist. 2, 73.

Lodged, lying flat by rain or hailstones, said of corn. M. 4. 1. Rb. 3, 3.

to Loffe MD. 2, 1. to laugh, of which it is probably different spelling.

Loggat, logget, small log, or piece of wood. Loggats, name of an old game among the common people; a stake is fixed into the ground; those who play loggats at it, and he that is nearest the stake, wins. H. 5, 1. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. VI, 218.

Loggerheaded, blockhead. TS. 4, 1. From log, block.

to Loiter, to tarry. bld. 2, 1. Kin to late, last, gr. loisthos, lazy, wh. s.

to Loll, to stretch out the tongue for mocking. Cy. 5, 3. Kin to the germ. lallen, lillen, lullen, gr. laō, laleō, alalazō.

Long. 'Tis long of you, it is your eager desire. LL. 2, 1. So at least explains it Horne Tooke Div. of P. I, 430. deriving the word from the sax. lengian, to length, lengthen, stretch out, said of an eager desire. The interpretation

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fault, or failure is Skinner's and Johnson's, but i
arbitrarious.

Long tongued, inconsiderate, froward, pre-
cipitate. cHf. 2, 2. TAn. 4, 2.

to Long, to belong. He. 2, 4. Hh. 1, 2.
Longing, longed for, or subject of longing.
TG. 2, 7.

to Loof, to bring a vessel close to the wind.
Hence loof'd, absent, gone. AC. 3, 8.
Loon, lown, stupid rascal, or the like. M. 5, 3.
0. 2, 3. Sax. laewend, traitor.
Loop, split, cleft, crevice, gap, fissure. aHd.
4,1; cord, string, lace, fringe. 0.3, 3. Kin
to the germ. glupen, gr. opeō, opeuō, ope,
opto, germ. Schluft, Schlucht; gr. lepadnon,
lopos, lope, lops.

Loop'd, cleft. KL. 3, 4.

to Lop, to prune, cut away. Rb. 3, 4. aĦd. 4, 1. aHf. 5, 3. cHf. 2, 6. TAn. 1, 2. 2, 5. From the sax. loppe, kin to the gr. lepis, lepos, lowsax. lubben, gr. lōban.

Lop, bough. Hh. 1, 2.

Lord. O Lord, Sir, a foolish and affected
phrase, used on all occasions, properly and
improperly, therefore ridiculed. AW. 2, 2.
Lord have mercy upon us,
was the in-
scription formerly placed upon the doors of
houses that were infected with the plague, as
a warning not to approach them. LL. 5, 2.
Lordig, diminutive of endearment. WT. 1, 2.
Losel, lozel, lorel, worthless fellow, one lost
to all goodness. WT.2, 3. Sax. lorean, losian,
to perish, be lost. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 350.

wlaec and warm. S. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 329. Lullaby, song to put a child in sleep. TA. 1, 3. From the lat. lallus, lallare, gr. lalein, germ. ludeln, liedeln, lullen. Douce Ill. of Sh. II, 112. deems it a contraction for lully baby. Lunes, lunacy, frenzy. MW. 4, 2. WT. 2, 2. TC. 2, 3. H. 3, 3. In the three last passages this is the true reading for lines, vaine, brows and lunacies, of the different editions. to Lurch, to gain a double game, to win a maiden set at cards. MW. 2, 2. Co. 2, 2. Luscious, lushious, oversweet. 0.1, 3. From the gr. glykys, kin to gleukos, dalkos, delkos, lat. dulcis.

Lush, rich, luxuriant, succulent, as applied to vegetation. T.2, 1. It is synonymous with loose, laxus, slack, expressing the fullest growth of the grass, when the fibres are relaxed. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 13.

Lusty, sound, stout, robust, bonny. Origin-
ally it was wanton. TN. 4, 2. JC. 1, 2. KL.
2, 4. AL. 2, 3.

Luxurious, lustful. MA. 4, 1. Tn. 5, 1.
Lurury, lewdness, incontinence. TC. 5, 2. H.
Lym, limehound, a sporting dog, led by a kind
1, 5. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. VIII, 274.
of throng called a lyam, or lyme. KL. 3, 6.
Fr. limier.

M.

Losing, undoing, destroying, disadvantageous. Mab. Queen of the fairies. RJ. 1, 4. cf. Gifford's ьна. 1, 1.

Lost and won, a pleonastic expression, where
one of those words sufficed. M. 1, 1.
Lots to blanks (it is), laid gain against
loss. Co. 5, 2. So 'tis ten to one. TS. 5, 2.
Lothbury, a street anciently inhabited by
turners of brazen candlesticks, and noisy trades,
alluded to afd. 3, 1. Gifford's Ben Jons. VII,

419.

to Lour, or lower, to grow less, to diminish. AC. 1, 2; to become dark, dim, or gloomy, to be clouded. Rc. 5, 3; to frown, look sullen, to pout. RJ. 4, 5. Rb. 1, 3. Assonance of low, and an original root la, lal, lar, lat, implying darkness, night, gloom, whence also the lat. luridus.

1.

to Lout, lowt, to make a lout (KJ. 2, 2. 3,
Cy. 5, 2. that is lewd, lubber, lob, fool) of.
alif. 4, 3.

for

Love. Of all loves, or for all loves, a kind and
tender adjuration, instead of by all means,
the sake of all love. MW. 2, 2. MD. 2, 3.
Love-in-idleness, pansy, heart's ease, viola
tricolor. MD. 2, 2.

Loveday, day of amity or reconciliation. TɅn.
1, 2.

Lover, applied to a female. MM. 1, 5.
Low, roaring. MɅ. 5, 4.

Lowliness, humility, submission. JC. 2, 1.
Lubber, sturdy, awkward fellow. TG. 2, 5.
S. lob.

Luce, old name for a pike, or jack. MW. 1, 1.
From the lat. lucius, fr. lucel, lucet.

to Lug, to tug, pull, hale, touze, drag, draggle.
TA. 4, 3. H. 3, 4. alId. 1, 2. Goth. lugga, to
draw.

Luggage, burden, T. 5, 1. aHd. 5, 4. Lukewarm, between hot and cold, moderately warm. T4.3, 6. cHf. 1, 2. From the sax.

Ben Jons. VI, 471.

Mabled, or mobled, attired in a large, coarse
and careless headdress, huddled, grossly co-
vered. H.2, 2. To mab, in the North pronounced
mob, is to dress carelessly. Mabs are slatterns.
Ray's dict. of north country words. Also the
Mace, anciently sceptre, staff. He. 4, 1. bHf.
morning headdress of ladies was mub.
5, 7. Ah. 2, 4; club. JC. 4, 3. Ital. mazza,
span. maça, sax. magga.

Maculation, spot, stain, corruption. TC. 4, 4.

From the lat. macula.

Mad, out of wits; KJ. 3, 4. TN. 4, 2. fond of; full of play. Kin to the ital. matto, fr. mat, germ. matt, gr. mataios, mētiaō, mēdomai; to meten, to dream, sax. maetan, gemaetan, to have a vision, maetinge; gr. metis, mathō, müsa, maō, mo, to be stirring organically; engl. mood, germ. Muth, Gemüth; engl. mettle, metal. S. Hickes linguar. vett. septentr. thes. I, 132.

Made, perfect, happy. AW. 4, 3. nearly synonymous with made up, finished, ready, prepared, (Gifford's Ben Jons. III, 45. 284.) complete, arraut. TA.5, 1. Hence may be defended MM. 3, 2. made in crimes, i. e. complete in crimes, for which Voss would correct trade. But besides that this phrase is too studied and produced only by a needless rejection of mocking, restored by Malone, this very Malone noted already the awkwardness of the expression making practice, of which there is not to be found an example. This awkwardness is increased yet by the meaning falsely given to the phrase to make practise on, for to make profit of, when to practise on occurs TS. ind. 1. 0. 1,2. AC. 2, 2. in the sense of setting on foot intrigues, loose and foul tricks against,

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that is mate, companion, lover, husband, wife. S. 9. with Malone. Gifford's Ben Jons. V, 328. VI, 184. VIII, 60. Sax. maca. Malapert, saucy, presumptuous. TN. 4, 1. cHf. 5, 5. Rc. 1, 3. Kin to pert, wh. s.

misdeed. H. 3, 2.

to Malign, to regard with malignity, or to act accordingly. P. 5, 1. S. Hawkins orig. of the engl. th. III, 238.

Malkin, maukin, diminative of Mary, used generally in contempt. Hence a stuffed figure of rags; a kind of mop made of rags, used for coarse purposes. Co. 2, 1. P. 4, 4.

that the sense of our passage were: how may Makeless, one deprived of his or her make, hypocrisy accomplished in crimes scournfully abuse times and circumstances for foul tricks. Maggot, mite, worm. H. 2, 2. 4, 8. Kin to the goth. matha, sax. mada, germ. Made, Motte, moth, lowsax. Miete, engl. mite, by the gr. madao, mydaō, germ. müchen, much-Malicho, for malhecho, spanish, evil deed, zen, modern, those worms being elementar animals out of slime, coals etc. Magnifico, a title given to the grandees of Venice. MV. 3, 2. O. 1, 2. Magot pie, magpie. M. 3, 4. Maid Marian, a romantic person belonging to a mythological cycle with Robin Hood, whose paramour she was, Little John, and Friar Tuck. S. Voss at LL. 2, 2. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 449. ss. and the neat tale Maid Marian, Lond. 1822. This person seems to have been a favourite popular idea, originally no doubt a holy one, founded on Our Lady, whose name she wore, modified and moulded however by and by on the genius and form of time and people, never absolutely neglected and forgotten, yet degraded and disfigured so as to become from a huntress chaste, like Diana, a wanton Malmsey, a luscious wine. Rc. 1, 4. bHd. 2, 1. loose strumpet; cf. aHd. 3, 3. and May. There- Malthorse, term of reproach, ideot. CE. 3, 1. fore she changed her name with her office T'S. 4, 1. and qualities, or attributes, and figuring in Maltworm, lover of ale, one who lives on the the Morris dance she became Maid Morian, juice of malt. aHd. 2, 1. because this dance was said to be originally to Mammer, to hesitate, stand muttering and a moorish ceremony. And who might deny, that there assonate not words like merry, the gr. mōros etc.?

Mail, coat of mail, metonymically. TC. 3, 3. From the fr. maille, ital. maglia, by the lat. macula, mash; hence properly a little iron ring.

Mailed, armed with a mail, or harness. bHf. 2, 4. Co. 1, S. aHd. 4, 1.

to Maim, to mutilate, curtail, cripple. TS. 5, 2. Hh. 3, 2. 0. 5, 1.

Maim, crippling, laming; insult, injury, offence, wrong, with which it is joined Co. 4, 5. aHd. 4, 1. Kin to the gr. mōmos and to mummock Co. 1, 8.

Main, chief, essential, capital. AW.3, 6. 5, 3.
H. 2, 2. Hh. 3, 2. JC. 2, 1. AC. 1, 2. TC. 2, 3 ;
fortune, wealth, to which it is joined a Hd. 4, 1.
S. Tristan 1, 99. 2, 40. 42. 48; ocean. KL.
3, 1. KJ. 2, 1. Main exercise, masterpiece.
0.2, 1. Kin to the sanscr. maha, ma, celt.
ma, more; pers. mah, meh; gr. megas, lat.
magnus; sax. maegen; goth. mikils, mikil.
In the sense of ocean it grazes the lat. manare,
like the river Main.

Mainly, chiefly, exceedingly, wholly, KL. 4, 7.
TC. 4, 4. H. 4, 7.

Mall Cutpurse or Mary Frith, born 1584,
† 1659 at once a hermaphrodite, a prostitute,
bawd, bully, thief, receiver of stolen goods.
Middleton and Decker wrote a comedy, of which
she was the heroine: the roaring girl. Her
life is published 1611. TN. 1, 3.
Mallard, drake. AC.-3, 8. Fr. malart.
Mallet, twoheaded hammer. bHd. 2, 4. From

malleus.

in doubt. 0.3, 3., where muttering is a glossem. Kin to maund, mumble, gr. myō, moimyaō. Mammet, maumet, motion, puppet, doll. aHd. 2, 3; jocular term of reproach to young women. RJ. 3, 5. From mamma, parva mater. Man, in low and jocular language, every other being; as the devil. MW. 5, 2; god. MA.3, 5. to Man, to tame a hawk. TS. 4, 1; to furnish with men, to garrison. cHf. 5, 1. Manacles, handfetters. Co. 1, 9. 5, 3. MM. 2, 4. Cy. 1, 2. 5, 4. From manica by manus. to Manacle, to fetter the hands, to shackle. T. 1, 2. bHf. 5, 1.

Manakin, manikin, diminutive of man, the germ. Männchen. TN. 3, 2. Cf. minnock. Mandragora, mandrake, mandrage, mandragon, germ. Alraun. To the Arabians it is the image of male and female body. S. Casiri biblioth. escur. II, 851. cf. Jac. de Vitriaco in Bongarsii gest. dei. 1. 1090. An inferior degree of animal life was attributed to it; and it was commonly supposed that, when torn from the ground, below gallows, where it grew out of the corpses of murderers, it uttered groans of so pernicious a nature, that the person who committed the violence, went mad, or died. To escape that danger, it was recommended to tie one end of a string to the plant, and the other to a dog. bHf. 3, 2. RJ. 4, 3. AC. 1, 5. metaphorically, a very diminutive or grotesque figure. bhd. 1, 2; emblem of incontinence. bHd. 3, 2.

C.

Mangle, to flesh, cut, tear, rend in pieces. Co. 3, 1. RJ. 3, 3. He. 4, 4. cHf. 5, 2. 4, 2. Kin to mancus, minus, gr. minyō, lat. minuere, germ. mangeln, fr. manquer. Mangy, scabbed, scurvy. TA. 4, 3.

to Make, to do, to be occupied in any thing. AL. 1, 1. H. 2, 2. 1, 2. TA. 3, 5; to fasten or secure a door etc. AL. 4, 1. CE. 3, 1; to make all split, a phrase to express great violence. MD. 1, 2; to make good, to maintain, avouch, confirm, warrant. Rb. 1, 1; to to make from, to fly, to avoid. KL. 1, 1; to make nice, to scruple, make objections. KJ. 3, 4; to make shift, to speed; thrive, succeed. MV. 1, 1; to make fortune, to enrich. aHd. 2, 2. cf. made and KL. 1, 1. (by the power, Mankind, masculine, manlike, mannish, (TC. that made me); to make up to, to finish, to 3, 3.) impudent, ferocious. WT. 2, 3. Co. confirm, to make complete. WT.2, 1. to decree, 4, 2. determine. KL. 1, i; to make up the mess, Manner, in the, a forensic term, in a criminal proverbially, to make complete the society. LL. 4, 3.

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fact, originally in a theft, with the thing stolen in the hand. aHd. 2, 4. LL. 1, 1. Corruption

no doubt of manoeuvre, whence the spelling Martlemas, St. Martin's day. bd. 2, 2. Cormainour, manour, meinour.

Manningtree or. Manningtree in Essex, formerly enjoyed the privilege of fairs, by the tenure of exhibiting a certain number of stage plays yearly. There were also great festivities, and much good eating at Whitsun ales. a Hd. 2, 1.

Manour, lordship, fief. cHf. 5, 2. Hh. 1, 1. From manere, gr. menein, monē, kia toʻmeiny. Manour and the germ. Meierei were confounded, likewise as from the celtic maer, prefect tenant arose maior, magister domus, maître d'hôtel, from maeroni, maeronaeth, praefectura, Meierei, majoria, majoratus. Manqueller, killer of men, murderer. bHd 2, 1.

Mansionry, dwelling place. M. 1, 6.

Mantuan, LL. 4, 2. Bapt. Spagnolus, a carme-
lite, famous latin poet in the 15th century.
to Manure, to handle, treat, work, chiefly
the ground, to cultivate, to dung, fatten. Ø.
1, 3. Rb. 4. From the it. maniare, fr. manveu-
vrer, by manus, from the gr. maō, germ.
machen.

From the germ. miscere. Horne

Many, multitude. bHd. 1, 3.
Menge, by the sax. mengan,
Tooke Div. of P. II, 387.
Map, muster, pattern, sample. Rb. 5, 1. bHƒ.
5, 1.

Mappery, sketching, drawing, art of design-
ing. TC. 1, 3.

to Mar, to corrupt, defoil, deprave. Rc. 1, 3.
Sax, mar, loss, amyrran, to lose; perhaps the
ital. smarrire.

Marchchick, term of endearment for maid.
MA. 1, 3.

Marches, borders of a country, or rather a
space on each side the borders of two contiguous
countries. Hh. 1, 2. Fr. marche, lat. marcha,
germ. Mark, margo, sax. mearc.
Marchpane, a sweet biscuit composed of sugar
and almonds, like those now called macaroons;
a constant article formerly in the desserts. RJ.
1, 5. Kin to massepain, gr. maza, germ. Mus;
perhaps to murb, morbidus, southgerm. Murra.
Mare, more (Trist. I, 34.) horse. bHd. 2, 1; a
sort of imp, or daemon. bld. 2, 1. From the
celt. mar, fem. march, marach, märch, merch,
whence marcher, properly to mount on horse-
back.

Margarelon, properly Margariton, a trojan hero, of the legendary history, called bastard. TC. 5, 5. Shk's authority is The life and death of Hector published by Tho. Purfoot, Loud. 1614.

Marquesse anciently equivalent to marquis,
then for marchioness. Hh. 5, 2

Marrow, strength, internal vigour. TA. 5, 5.
Marry trap, proverbial exclamation for By
Mary, you are caught, chiefly by a bailiff, or
nuthook. MW. 1, 1.

to Marshal, to act as a marshal, to put in
order; to lead the way by foregoing. H. 3, 4.
M. 2, 1. From mare, wh. s. and scale, or
Schalk, servant, properly guardian of the
horses, which was a courtoffice.

Marshalsea, a dungeon at Southwark. Hh. 5, 8.

Mart, market. MV. 3, 1. bargain, trade. TS. 2, purchase, emption. H. 4, 4.

to Mart, to make a bargain, to sell, traffic. JC. 4, 8. Cy. 1, 7. WT. 4, 3.

ruption of Martinmas, feast of St. Martin, the
11th of Novbr. Falstaff is jocularly called so
as being in the decline.

Mary buds, the flowers of the marygold, which
were remarked to open in the morning, and
shut up in the evening. Cy. 2, 3.
Masks. Black masks were frequently worn by
ladies in public in the time of Sh., particularly
and perhaps universally, at the theatres.
Whether MM. 2, 4. these black masks, and
RJ. 1, 1. these happy masks being black allude
to those of the audience, or of the actors,
seems not quite certain. If a theatrical com-
pany had not a boy or young man, who could
perform a woman's part, the character might
be performed in a mask, which being a fashion
so much in use, gave no uncommon appear-
ance in the scene. MD. 1, 2. and made resemble
the modern to the ancient theatre. The mask
was partly worn to preserve the complexion.
TG. 3, 3. LL. 2, 1. Masks were also little
dramas allegorical, like that in T. 4, 1. Ben
Jonson's masks of this kind are much more
valuable, than they are deemed generally.
Mast, acorn, fruit of oaktree, as food for
swine. TA. 4, 3. Kin to the gr. maza, mattein,
magis, maktra, the tarent. ammazarato, ill
baked bread; goth. matza, to eat, mats, meat,
fr. mets, sax. maet, maeth, meat; maest,
acorn; engl. moise, alem. muas, swed. mues,
span. mueso, germ. Muss.
Mastiff, bulldog, dog of the largest size. He.
3, 7. TC. 1, 3. French matin, it. mastino,
middlelat. mastinus. Dufresne.

Match, association, party of marriage, TG. 4, 3;
playing or wager. Rb. 3, 8; one of this kind,
equal, like, RJ. 1, 2; contest. MV. 3, 1. aHd.
2, 4. To set a match, to bespeak. aHd. 1, 2.
In those significations this word is kindred to
the oldgerm. Maad, Maat, engl. mate, to meet;
maid; franc. Mag, relation; goth. mag, boy;
engl. comate; on the other hand to the gr.
mache, pugna.

to Match, to couple, join. LL. 2, 1. to marry. MA. 2, 1. MD. 3, 2. to oppose. cHf. 5, 1. Mate, comate, companion. AL. 2, 1. bHd. 2, 4; husband or wife. S. match.

to Mate, to equal, oppose. Hh. 3, 2. confound, stupify, overpower. CE. 3, 2. 5, 1. M. 5, 1. where to mate and to amaze are joined. bHf. 3, 1. Kin partly to match, partly to the germ. matt, in the game of chess, viz dead, pers. mat, partly to the spanish matare, to kill, and the hebr. mut, to die, mavet, death. Material, full of stuff for humorous flashes, full of solid sense and observation. AL. 3, 3. The same as

Matter, full of. AL. 2; 1.

Mattock, pickax. RJ. 5, 3. TɅn. 4, 3.
Mattress, matrass, flockbed. AC. 2, 6. Kin
to mat, lat. matta Ovid. Fast. 6, 680. gr.
mitos thread.

Maugre, in spite of. TN. 3, 1. Fr. malgré.
to Maul, mawl, mall, to beat with a maul,

mall, mallet (wh. s.) KJ. 4, 8; to beat soundly.
AC. 4, 7. Kin to the gr. malein, germ. malen,
malmen, zermalmen.

May. The mayfeast, as feast of the returning Sun and spring is a common feast in the whole story, as generally the summer and wintersolstice and equinox are the chief points of all feasts, the period of decreasing sun being a

Called also openarse, whence the obscene jest.
RJ. 2, 1. S. Dufresne mella.

Meed, reward, fee, pay. TG. 5, 4; merit. cHf.
2, 1. H. 5, 2. TA. 1, 1. Kin to the gr. misthos,
sax. med, goth. maeta, oldgerm. miet, present,
gift, ungemiete, gratis; germ. miethen, to
hire.

Meek, mild, softhearted. CE. 2, 1. cHf. 2, 2-
M. 1, 7. Hh. 2, 4. AC. 5, 2. Icel. miukr, gr.
mikros, dor. mikkos, kin to the germ. schmie-
gen, schmächtig, schmeicheln, smikros.
gr.

period of mourning, and that of the returning Sun matter of joy. Hence the Florealia, Lemuralia of the Romans, the maygames of Robin Hood, their chiefs the Lord of misrule, and the abbat of unreason, the sworddances and morrisdances. Hence also the planting of maies, and maypoles (MD. 3, 2.) types of the phallus, whence the ital. piantar il maggio for to lye with. It was no wonder, that the genius of time and peoples formed and stamped those recreations, and them a proportional character even of wanton mirth and abuse. S. to Meere, to divide. AC. 3, 2. So Johnson; Hammer's in Wiener Jahrhüch. 1818. essay III, 188. ss. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 439. ss. Voss at MD. 1, 1. cf. TN. 3, 4. LL. 3, 2. Hh. 5, 3. Drake's Sh. and his time. I, 152. Gifford's Ben Jons. V, 258.-M. 5, 3. Johnson proposed the unnecessary May of life for way, wh. s. Maze, labyrinth T. 5, 1. TS. 1, 2. a sport and rural game, like to the nine men's morris. MD. 2, 2.

gave

to Maze, to amaze, perplex. alf. 4, 2. Hh.2, 4.
Mazzard, head, or face. H. 5, 1. O. 2, 3. This
burlesque word is but an other form of mazer,
bowl, or goblet; middlelat. mazer, mazerinus,
mazarum, masdrinum, vas murrhinum, or
murreum. S. Dufresne, and Böttiger's treatise
on this subject. Cf. Gifford's Ben Jonson VI,
491.

Me was pleonastically inserted in colloquial use.
KL. 1, 2. TN. 3, 2. as also in Greek and
Germ.

Meacock, tame, dastardly fellow, particularly

an overmild husband. TS. 2, 1. From meek cock, assonating the french cocu. Mead, meadow. TS. 5, 2. He. 5, 2. Kin to the lat. madere, the germ. Moder, gr. mydan, fr. motte, germ. Matte, engl. moat, mist; or the Sax. maed, mowed, from mathan, metere. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 875. Meager, lean, lank, thin. RJ. 5, 1. Germ. lat. macer, mager, fr. maigre, gr. makros, long stretched. to Meal, to mingle, or mix with. MM. 4, 2. Other form of to mell, like the fr. mêler contracted from meddle, by miscellus, from misceo. Mealy, having the quality of meal, are called the wings of butterflies. TC. 3, §.

Mean, tenor in music. LL. 5, 2. From moyen, medius.

to Mean, to láment, to moan, bemoan. MD. 5, 1. Since it is a scottish word (s. Jamieson to mene, meyne, meane) and in the early edition, a change is needless.

to Mean by, to mean of. MV. 2, 9. Kin to the gr. menos, menō, menoinaō, lat, mens. Measles, leprosy. Co. 3, 2. spelt also measels, meazles, from the middlelat. misellus, mesellus, oldfr. mesel, meseau, ital. miselle, hebr. mizora, germ. Miselsucht, Misulsucht, Masern. Measure, grave solemn dance, with slow and measured steps, like the minuet. MA. 2, 1. Hence to tread a measure. LL. 5, 2. AL. 5, 4. Measure for measure, like for like, denoting the law of retaliation, or equal justice. cHf. 2, 6.

Meat, yellow of an egg. KL. 1, 4. RJ. 3, 1.
to Meddle, to mix. T. 1, 2.

Medicinable, medicinal, useful as medicine.
MA. 2, 2. Cy. 3, 2. 0.5, 2.

to

and then it would be kin to march, wh. s., marsh,· icel. myra, holl. moer, germ. Moor, Morast, fr. marais, it. marazzo, maremma, gr. myrō, myromai, germ. Meer, goth. mir, intended as boundary. Malone however suspected to be it a word of our author's formation from mere, he being the entire, whole subject or occasion of the war. There seems notwithstanding to lay concealed a fault, unless we would correct the mere question, as the mere perdition. 0.2, 2.

Meet with, to counteract. T. 4, 1. To be meet with, to be even with, to have fair retaliation. MA. 1, 1. Sax. gemetan, lowsax. möten, goth. mötgan. S. Horne Tooke Div. of P. I, 423. Kin to the gr. meteimi, metienai, by meta. S. also to male, to match.

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Meiny, menie, a company belonging to, or attending upon a superior person. KL. 2, 4. From the old fr. mesnie, middlelat. maisnada, mainata, ital. masnada for mansionata, Dufresne therefore of the family of manor, mansionry, and mate, wh. s. Often it has been confounded with many, wh. s.

Melancholy air was a fashionable refined mark of gentility. KJ. 4, 1. M. of Mooreditch aHd. 1, 2. allusion to some madman known at that time to frequent the neighbourhood of Moorditch.

to Mellow, to ripen, soften. TN. 1, 2. Rc. 4, 4. cHf. 3, 3. LL. 4, 2. Kin to the gr. meilinos, meilichos, meilissō, lat. mollis, germ. mild, to melt.

to

Memorize, to render memorable, to record.
Hk. 3, 2.

Memory, memorial. AL. 2, 3. KL. 4, 7.
to Mend, to colour, excuse. aHd. 5, 2. Lat.

emendare.

Mephostophilus, a familiar spirit in Sir John a term of jocular invective.

Faustus;

MW.

1, 2. Merchant, chap, saucy chap. RJ. 2, 4. Mere, absolute, whole. O. 2, 2. Lat. merus. Merely, absolutely, simply. T. 1, 1. Merlin, astrologue, mathematician and prophet of the 5th century. aHd. 3, 1. KL. 3, 2. Mermaid, syren. CE. 3, 2. MD. 2, 2. cHf. 3, 2. AC. 2, 2. Also a famous tavern in Cornhill, where Sh., Johnson and other wits of the time used to assemble. Gifford's Ben Jons. V, 80. Merry. 'Tis merry in hall, when beards wag all. A proverb bĦd. 5, 3. Kin to the indian goldmountain Meru, mar; the Sirius Maira; the gr. marile, hot embers; marō, mairō, marmairo, to glitter, smaragdos; merum; sax. mirige, Eden Gen. 13, 10; myrig, mirige, merig, merie, engl. smerk, sweet, agreeable, properly glancing, glittering.

Mesh, net. MV. 3, 2. 1, 1. From macula. S.

Medlar. MM. 4, 3. AL. 3, 2. RJ. 2, 1. Sax.
maed, gr. mespilē, lat. mespilus, germ. Mispel.\_mail.

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